Staking is easier to do, and could result in higher payouts depending on your luck.
Much higher in my experience. But after I kill my MNs, how do I rebalance my wallet addresses?
No one has answered yet. Yes, I know I can just "send" to an address, but how do I know which address it's being sent from... or how much is in that address in the first place so I can balance my staking addresses.
And on that last note, how do I check the balances of my addresses so I can do that better?
Just take your total balance and divide it up between whichever addys you want to use and do it in successive transactions.